Name: Broken Hearts for the DWP x Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom
Start: 2023-10-20T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-10-20T21:00:00+01:00
Location: ICF @ Block 336

Broken Hearts for the DWP x Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom

Healing Justice Ldn emerged as a collaboration by Women of Colour living in London working on the intersection of community work, trauma and health, creativity and liberation practice. We build community health, repair and self-transformation rooted in disability justice, somatic survivor work and trauma-informed practice working with communities of colour and other marginalised and underrepresented groups.

Healing Justice LDN

ICF @ Block 336

Note: this session will cover the issue of suicide.This is an in-person film screening of Broken Hearts for the DWP, a short documentary by Dolly Sen, and Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom, a film by Sins Invalid. Broken Hearts for the DWP is about how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is driving disabled people to starvation and suicide, and how disabled people are fighting back using art, love and rage. The film is about two art interventions at the DWP that protested the deaths of disabled people from current DWP policy, and includes interviews with those affected. Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom by Sins Invalid, the film brought thirteen artists together to make evocative explorations of creation, aging and mortality. It is a journey through genesis, transformative power and earth. It was prompted by a year-long dialogue. The resulting work plunges us into visions of life and death, the disabled body/mind and liberation.F﻿acilitators Dolly Sen&#x27;s arts practice crosses writing, performance, film and visual art. Her work is seen as subversive, humorous and radical. Dolly is interested in debate and social experiments around themes of madness, sanity, the other, and acceptable behaviours, from an unusual and unconventional position of power. She is drawn to this because she has been labelled mad, although she thinks that her challenging of inequality and vicious systems of the &quot;normal&quot; world makes perfect sense.Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalised. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid’s performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body, developing provocative work where paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all bodies and communities.They define disability broadly to include people with physical impairments, people who belong to a sensory minority, people with emotional disabilities, people with cognitive challenges, and those with chronic/severe illness. They understand the experience of disability to occur within any and all walks of life, with deeply felt connections to all communities impacted by the medicalisation of their bodies, including trans, gender variant and intersex people, and others whose bodies do not conform to our culture(s)&#x27; notions of &quot;normal&quot; or &quot;functional.&quot;AccessibilityIn personWe want to make this space as safe and accessible as possible, including for people with compromised immune systems and other underlying health conditions. Please take a COVID test before visiting and avoid attending if symptomatic. We encourage people to practice community care by wearing masks and respect each other’s personal space. Masks will be available at each venue.We will be taking a comfort break during the session.OnlineWe will have closed captioning (live transcriptions) and BSL (British Sign Language) available.If there are any access needs you’d like us to consider, please email info@healingjusticeldn.org.

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